The principal part of the Dari vocabulary consists of Persian words that are common in Dari, Farsi, and Tajik:
"son" فرزند
"river" دریا
"mountain" کوه
"cat" پیشک
"dog" سگ
"home, house" خانه
"motherland" میهن
Many words have also been borrowed from Pashto, which is the other official language of Afghanistan:
"university" پوهنتون
"professor" پوهاند
"drugstore" درملتون
"deputy" مرستیال
"regiment" غند
"major" جگرن
"colonel" دگروال
"General Staff" ستردرستیز
"marquee" غژدی
Dari borrows from European languages and English as well. Many words are phonetic representations of foreign words in the Dari script:
"machine" ماشین
"car" موتر
"bank" بانک
"program" پروگرام
"system" سیستم
"traffic" ترافیک
"processing" پروسس
"shoes" بوت
"size" سایز
"coup" کودتا
"depot" دیپو
"parliament" پارلمان
Borrowings from Indian and Turkic languages are also present:
"cart" گادی
"chair" چوکی
"bananas" کیله
"roam" کوچ
"big" کته
"festival" توی
"hearth" اجاق
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